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I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification of the tax code that closes corporate loopholes that incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.
Bill Foster
Believe
Approach
Corporate
Spending
Spending Cuts
Jobs
Economic
Economic Growth
Simplification
Investments
Combination
Balanced
Loopholes
Reduction
Overseas
Ship
Debt
Closes
Tax
Tax Code
Cuts
Companies
Code
Growth
Need
Bipartisan
U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.
Bill Gates
You
Market
States
Markets
Penetration
Similar
Look
Very
Companies
International
United
United States
Competitive
Eventually, all companies are replaced.
Bill Gates
Replaced
Companies
Eventually
Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.
Bill Gross
Class
Will
Boomers
Pension
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Always
Just
Aging
Companies
Asset
Funds
Bonds
Needed
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
Bill Gross
Money
Borrow
Compound
Return
Equity
Than
Expense
Less
Companies
Therefore
If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.
Bill Gurley
Value
Build
Appreciates
Corporate
Way
Critical
Performance
Long-Term
Obviously
Equity
Goal
Wall
Wall Street
Maximize
Then
Companies
Street
If you want to invest in early-stage technologies, putting a timeframe on it does behold you to Silicon Valley economics. You've got a certain time period where you have to make the money. And you have to invest that money whether you find good companies or not.
Bill Maris
Time
Good
You
Money
Economics
Valley
Find
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Invest
Putting
Period
Make
Does
Got
Time Period
Behold
Where
Want
Whether
Certain
Companies
Technologies
I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.
Bill Maris
Good
Minority
Google
Our
Entrepreneurs
Shareholders
Clear
Investments
Make
Sell
Very
Get
Decide
Paid
Incentive
Companies
Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.
Bill Maris
People
Money
Internet
Lost
Late
Back
Some
About
Rather
Poured
Excited
Failed
Venture
Got
Lot
Very
Capitalists
Companies
Whole
During the 2000 bubble, many companies rushed to go public before they had any revenue.
Bill Maris
Before
Rushed
Bubble
Had
Revenue
Go
Any
Public
Companies
Many
If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet.
Bill McKibben
You
Value
Pump
Out
Would
Climate
Order
Avoid
Companies
Reserves
I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.
Bill Viola
Age
World
Market
Immediately
Could
Knew
Sony
Also
How
Coming
Came
Were
End
Just
Artists
Video
Used
Companies
Starting
The truth is I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act. I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell instead of putting it on our backs.
Billy Crudup
Truth
Truth Is
Will
Pay
Think
Our
Backs
See
Proper
Instead
Putting
Feel
Come
Advertising
Sell
Movie
Anything
Should
Act
Companies
Film
Actor
Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.
Blake Farenthold
Ways
Web
Web Sites
Both
Both Ways
Hosting
Lot
Bandwidth
Sites
Going
Companies
Need
You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.
Blake Farenthold
Politics
You
Approve
Merger
Like
Because
Just
Companies
Right
Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.
Blake Mycoskie
Good
You
Charity
Giving
First
Strategy
Our
Say
Wearing
About
Mention
Bottom
Part
Bottom Line
Excited
Feels
Most
Also
Advertisement
How
Doing
Line
Heard
Lot
Friend
Get
Viable
Anyone
Story
Them
Customers
Ask
Us
Companies
Growth
Toms
A lot of people like the idea of companies being socially involved in their community, but if you want big companies to get involved in social issues, what makes you think they're going to come down on your side?
Blake Mycoskie
You
People
Big
Community
Down
Think
Side
Idea
Come
Like
Involved
Makes
Big Companies
Issues
Lot
Get
Going
Being
Want
Social
Social Issues
Your
Companies
Socially
We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
Bob Schieffer
News
People
Internet
Job
Seen
Assume
Our
Bit
Cable
Know
Makes
Heard
Different
Turn
Turn-On
Companies
Radio
Evening
Evening News
Now
Basically
Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
Bob Uecker
Me
Pay
Goods
Endorse
Products
Companies
In our early days, being recognized on any list of great companies was hard to imagine. There were times when we sold the office furniture to make payroll.
Bobby Kotick
Great
Our
Sold
Furniture
Recognized
Days
Make
Were
Times
Office
List
Any
Being
Hard
Payroll
Companies
Early
Early Days
Imagine
Being able to evolve great franchises over time is the foundation of world-class entertainment companies.
Bobby Kotick
Time
Great
Entertainment
World-Class
Evolve
Able
Over
Being
Companies
Foundation
As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
Boomer Esiason
Thankful
Giving
Community
Believe
Local
Back
Corporate
Critical
Citizens
Parent
Both
Chase
Giving Back
Like
Role
Child
Canon
Who
Companies
Resident
It's often taken for granted that the most dominant tech companies control the world's most important technology and communications platforms. Instead, the truth is that these giants run on top of the world's most important platform: the mobile communications networks.
Borje Ekholm
Truth
Technology
Truth Is
World
Important
Control
Top
Giants
Run
Networks
Taken
Taken For Granted
Instead
Most
Mobile
Dominant
Often
Communications
Granted
Companies
Platform
Platforms
Tech
Tech Companies
Having spent almost 25 years in different roles within Investor, I have truly enjoyed working with creating long-term value in our companies.
Borje Ekholm
Value
Our
Spent
Having
Investor
Almost
Long-Term
Within
Years
Truly
Roles
Different
Creating
Working
Different Roles
Companies
Enjoyed
At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.
Brad Feld
Build
Group
Think
Those
Has-Been
Magic
Look
Always
Been
Products
Companies
Governments spend all their time trying to get big companies to relocate their headquarters, and they end up subsidizing the move with tax breaks. And companies that relocate their headquarters are often not meaningful job creators.
Brad Feld
Time
Job
Big
Spend
Job Creators
Headquarters
Big Companies
Governments
End
Up
Get
Trying
Often
Move
Tax
Tax Breaks
Breaks
Meaningful
Companies
Creators
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